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The Amagansett School was evacuated on Wednesday morning after an anonymous bomb threat was made, which police determined was a non-credible threat.
The Amagansett School was evacuated on Wednesday morning after an anonymous bomb threat was made, which police determined was a non-credible threat.
The Amagansett School was evacuated on Wednesday morning after an anonymous bomb threat was made, which police determined was a non-credible threat.
A bomb threat that turned out to be false caused the evacuation of the Amagansett School on Wednesday morning, two days after a similar threat force Southampton schools to evacuate more than 1,300 students from three buildings. KYRIL BROMLEY
A bomb threat that turned out to be false caused the evacuation of the Amagansett School on Wednesday morning, two days after a similar threat force Southampton schools to evacuate more than 1,300 students from three buildings. KYRIL BROMLEY
The Amagansett School was evacuated on Wednesday morning after school officials received a bomb threat.
The East Hampton Town Police Department’s Emergency Services Unit, the local version of a SWAT team, was on the scene as of 10 a.m.
According to a press release issued by East Hampton Town Police late Wednesday morning, at around 8:51 a.m., school officials received an email stating that “several bombs were placed in all of Amagansett’s schools as well as every school in New York.” Police said the email demanded cash to be dropped at an address in northern New York.
Police said they were immediately notified by school officials, who evacuated the building while police searched the property. Police said that no evidence of a bomb was found at the school and declared the school safe by 10:55 a.m.
Town Police said an investigation is ongoing and that they were working closely with both the Suffolk County Police Department and New York State Police.
School officials have not yet issued a public statement about the matter.
It is the second time this week that local schools were evacuated because of a bomb threat. On Monday, the Southampton School District evacuated all three of its school buildings and sent more than 1,300 students home, after receiving an email claiming that bombs had been placed in the school buildings and that: “A lot of people will die. You all deserve to die.”
In April, Amagansett was among four local schools that were the subject of anonymous bomb threats that police said they had quickly determined were “noncredible.”
Staff Writer on Oct 18, 2023